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Friday, June 29, 2012

The SLMC should take a hike – their demands are high handed

The gumption of
the SLMC to say that they will only align themselves with a party that will
give the SLMC the right to choose the Chief Ministerial Candidate is tantamount
to giving them autonomy over a whole region comprising of equal numbers of Tamil,
Muslim and Sinhala people. The current Chief Minister is from the Government
aligned TMVP and so it is their belief this time round they should only support
a party that gives them the plum job!! What next? A Sinhala person next time
round? This is all bull shit.

I am personally
against religious or ethnic parties in Sri Lanka, as I do not believe it is in
the interest of good relations between communities. They all tend to be
divisive. It is best to belong to a party with a platform of a political position
and a manifesto. To me the SLMC is only for Muslims and if one is not a Muslim
one is not included within this political party. That is a very exclusive
exclusion that should not be permitted.

I remember at
the previous Eastern Provincial Council how the UPFA Muslim, Hisbullah
maintained he would be the Chief Minister and then he did not get the position,
which went to Pillayan. All this smacks of division and not inclusion.

The latest news says
that the SLMC will go along with the UPFA coalition in the three provincial council
elections. That is obviously because the UPFA threatened the SLMC with ouster if
they did not toe the line. After all they enjoy Ministerial positions, and can therefore
pretend they have some power in the current administration, even though they have
sold out their brethren big time in not challenging the lack of accountability for
the raids against their community in various places in the island.

Some call this protecting
the turf they have gained and not wishing to lose the privileges and not worry about
one’s community.

It is apparent from
the political games that are being played that even the Muslim community in Sri
Lanka is not served by this political party using the name of the religion, but
in reality going against its themes and principles. This is food for thought and
discussion!!!

In the end the leadership will sell their own to keep themselves in play.